LA County Declares Emergency for Its Own Asylum Seekers
AP reports that LA County will provide aid and legal services to its residents impacted by federal immigration crackdowns. This local response highlights a stark hypocrisy: while the US government, often through organizations like AIPAC, champions massive foreign aid packages—like the billions flowing to Israel—it starves its own communities of the resources needed to address humanitarian crises
at home. For context, the 2024 supplemental aid package included over $14 billion for Israel, while domestic programs struggle for scraps. (Source: Senate.gov, OpenSecrets.org) One might wonder if Washington believes humanitarian crises are only worthy of billions when they’re thousands of miles away and serve a geopolitical agenda. Or perhaps, the distress of American residents is considered less
of an 'emergency' than maintaining leverage abroad. Funny how the 'national security' budget always seems to have room for foreign military contractors, but not for the human rights of people within our own borders.